Rondam Ramblings

Hello.  Yes, I'm still alive. I have not posted anything here in over three months mainly because I've fallen into some rather dee...

We lost our electrical power for 45 hours as a result of the wildfires and high winds in Northern California.  This is by far the longest po...

Joe Rogan has conducted  a three-hour-long interview with Edward Snowden .  It is well worth investing the time to listen to all of it. (I...

In a time where brazen dishonesty has become the norm it is sometimes necessary to belabor the painfully obvious, to wit, the impeachment pr...

Attorney General William Barr gave a speech at Notre Dame university  where he resurrected some of Adolf Hitler's most odious rhetoric ,...

Funny how fast the "no collusion" slogan evaporated after the recent revelations about Trump trying to shake down the president of...

It has now been three months since we shipped a package via Fedex that turned out to be undeliverable (we sent it signature-required, and th...

I have seen some pretty serious corporate bureaucratic dysfunction over the years, but I think this one takes the cake: on May 23, we shippe...

Ten years ago I wrote an essay entitled " The Trouble with Shadow Photons " describing a problem with the dramatic narrative of wh...

I wonder how many  train wreck corn harvests  it will take before Trump supporters start to wonder if maybe, just maybe, he isn't always...

Since the dawn of quantum physics, the Born rule has been the cause of much consternation and gnashing of dentition, with Einstein famously...

A number of people have asked me to weigh in on  this story in Quanta Magazine  (based on this paper  [ PDF version ] and also reported in t...

Dear Christian supporters of Donald Trump: I occasionally hear some of you complain that we west-coast liberals don't take you serious...

Carliss Chatman raises some very interesting questions about the logical consequences of fetal personhood . To which I would like to add: if...

[Part of an ongoing series of exchanges with Jimmy Weiss .] Jimmy Weiss responded  to my post on teleology and why I reject  Jimmy's ...

I had heard about the soy-based  Impossible Burger  a long time ago but they are not yet widely available.  Burger King is launching a pilot...